An institutional approach to the examination of food safety Academic Article

abstract

• Food safety is an inherently complex agribusiness problem. Food safety is a result of the collec-tive efforts of various members of the food supply chain in which each member's production, handling, processing and retailing practices jointly determine the safety of the consumed product. Although agency explanations have been offered as one potential solution to this research chal-lenge, food safety also operates within a greater institutional setting. A theoretical framework that draws on an institutional approach is developed in which two sets of propositions are offered to explain the coordination and economic organization of food safety. Such a framework offers four contributions / implications to organizational economic and food safety research. 2012 International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA).

authors

• Ng, Desmond
• Salin, Victoria

published proceedings

• International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

author list (cited authors)

• Ng, D., & Salin, V.

complete list of authors

• Ng, D||Salin, V

publication date

• August 2012

publisher

• International Food and Agribusiness Management Review  Publisher

published in

• INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT REVIEW  Journal

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/183870

start page

• 21

end page

• 46

volume

• 15

issue

• 2